Arkstfan

Probably do. Under the new NCAA rules for bowl eligibility the champion of the conference can't go bowling at 6-6 if there are any available teams in the conference with 7 or more wins that haven't been placed in bowls already contracted with the league.

Send your resume to the New Orleans Bowl, care of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation. I'm sure that an organization comprised of business leaders in New Orleans who have an interest in sports would appreciate finding someone with greater skill than they have.

He was 22-23 at Michigan State after last week. Michigan State is used to getting whippings from Indiana in basketball but not football.

Yeah but Stockstill inheirited a team that the recruiting gurus said was made up of the best or second best Sun Belt recruiting class every year. When you replace a guy who recruits well and can't do squat with talent, its a lot easier to win immediately.

Rick, I was think from looking at the thumbnail photos the UNT girl would have it won easily then I saw the photos submitted and thought, Wow those were the BEST photos they could find?

I don't think people comprehend just how hard it will be for anyone to ever move to I-A without a conference or some MAJOR natural scheduling draw (ie. being Army, Navy or Notre Dame). On top of that the new I-A scheduling rules take away most of the carrot for moving from I-AA to I-A.

I've had this problem before and ended up solving it by creating a new database on pair on a different db server and just moving everything there.

Back in 2001 ASU didn't have the money to buy out Joe Hollis (who some felt we shouldn't fire given that he had just been diagnosed with prostate cancer) and transferred him into an open PE professorship for a year with the school paying the difference between his contract and the budgeted teaching salary and hired Steve Roberts, then a year later had enough money on hand to buy out the remaining year.

The athletic directors believe that every game ought to be played under similar conditions. The league uses a five camera system. 1 in or on the press box, 2 in each end zone, 2 fixed to shoot down each goal line opposite the press box camera. So far this year I've seen three plays in televised games where the issue of the ball breaking the plane of the goal came into play and it appeared that the call on the field was wrong but because the television feed did not include a shot precisely down the line the calls could not be overturned. So that part of the system I certainly like. That is a key call and often a very close call. The goal line call at ASU that was reviewed there was not an adequate TV shot of the play. The high sideline shot should have been more than adequate for review because I believe that camera was next to to the camera ESPN used to show that replay.

Got a reminder from a friend about Leonard's recruitment at ASU. Leonard was at the ASU-Ole Miss game in 2004. ASU had led much of the game but used TD's resulting from two ASU picks to take a 28-21 lead and an ASU receiver drops a pass to set-up a tie. Really good effort from us. Leonard was there on an official visit. Ole Miss was projecting him as a defensive back. While watching ASU, he became convinced that he could play quarterback in ASU's offensive system and contacted our coaches on Monday after the game. Film is sent and our coaches agree and start recruiting him. Two lessons. #1 Luck is important. #2. A non-conference road game when you are 1-3 is still important because it can impact your future.

#1. I'm friends with a number of UNT fans so I have an interest. #2. It is not in ASU long-term interest for a school in the conference to not do as well as it can. Look at the Southland of the 1980's. It was a premier I-AA league competing well nationally. Today they are a one-bid league and will be lucky if the champ plays two games in the playoffs. Excellence breeds excellence. I was very unhappy with MTSU retaining Andy Mc after the 2004 season because their program was wasting away. #3. I love the business of college athletics and have great respect for the administrators and as a matter of principle find it offensive that forces outside an athletic department will force a coach down the throat of an AD and then blame the AD when that person fails at the job driving down attendance and donations. Committees that help assess candidates are fine, but if the AD's neck is on the line, in the end it must be his hire. #4. Every job in America is different. And even the same job can be different at different points in a school's history. For example 20 years ago I would have prized the chance to get someone with Memphis ties as head coach at ASU. Today it would be a minor-factor because post-prop 48 they no longer turn out as much I-A talent. UNT today probably has to put a greater emphasis on the personality of the coach because of the need to raise money for a stadium coming off struggling seasons. At ASU if we continue to have success that would be less of need because our football facilities are in better shape at this point allowing the athletic administration to carry the bulk of the load. Some coaches are great builders who struggle to maintain success once achieved (see Lou Holtz who a few years ago would have been awesome hire at a struggling school but questionable for one doing well).

Actually if you look at the list of reviewable plays... Reviewable 1. Plays governed by Sideline, Goal Line, End Zone, and End Line: - Scoring plays, including a runner breaking the plane of the goal line - Pass complete/incomplete/intercepted at side line, goal line and end line - Runner/receiver in or out of bounds - Recovery of loose ball in bounds 2. Passing Plays: - Pass ruled complete/incomplete/intercepted in the fi eld of play and end zones - Touching of a forward pass by an ineligible receiver - Touching of a forward pass by a defensive player - Quarterback (passer) forward pass of fumble (if ruled incomplete, play is fi nalized) - Illegal forward pass or illegal handling beyond the line of scrimmage - Illegal forward pass or illegal handling after change of possession - Forward or backward pass thrown from behind the line of scrimmage 3. Other Detectable Infractions: - Runner ruled not down - Forward progress errors with respect to fi rst down - Touching of a kick - Number of players on the fi eld - Clock adjustments - Fourth down/try fumble plays

Every yard gained on the ground against Memphis came from a freshman (RB Arnold, RB Wilkerson, QR Tompkins, QB Leonard). We're using a lot of them.

FWIW, it's been my experience that bad football hires often cost AD's their job. Yet you constantly see schools tying the hands of the AD in hiring by naming blue ribbon search committees. If it isn't the AD's call who comes in for final interviews and isn't his call who gets hired, he shouldn't be held responsible for the guy hired.

Auburn's head coach should have been our head coach. Tubberville was a former Lacewell assistant and set to take the job when Perkins quit 8 days before signing day. Tommy demanded a certain salary and to hire his own assistants. Since all the assistants had 11 months left on their contracts we couldn't afford to do both and he backed out. If Perkins had left for the NFL at the end of the year instead of before signing day things would have been a lot different at ASU.

I heard him tell it once after he was hired. You might actually have stumbled on to the way to judge hiring established coaches. Hollis & Co., at ASU lost to TCU, Nichols State, and Jacksonville State. Roberts & Co., at NW State beat all of them. In other words, hire somebody who can beat at least some of the teams you are losing too.

Likely higher than last year, and that's one of our league goals isn't it? Deleted the rest simply to save space. Interesting about the Texas ties of your successful coaches. At Arkansas State Frosty England (early 1950's) was the only successful ASU coach who hadn't been assistant at ASU prior to being named head coach. Coach Roberts has only partially broken the mold because he was never an assistant at stAte but he played Division II ball in-state, was an assistant at that level, then head coach at that level, then at NW Louisiana before coming to ASU. The two years at NW State were his only years outside Arkansas, but he built his way by developing good relationships with high school coaches in Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana. Those relationships of trust opened doors in recruiting that might not have been open to an Arkansas State coming off three wins in two years. It seems that is has generally been the North Texas model as well. A new coach cannot work a miracle and make sub-par talent suddenly champion talent but a new coach who can build a work ethic and a winning attitude can seem to be a miracle worker. This is from the Jonesboro Sun after ASU's first win after Roberts arrived. You don't see our staff bouncing around as much now as in 2002, because they no longer have to spark energy from the team or the fans any more, but when it was required, they did it.

There's no magic place to get coaches. Look at the league co-leaders. MTSU hired Stockstill a 24 year coaching veteran with big school experience but who had never been a head coach with no ties to the area. ASU hired Roberts who had never coached at the I-A level until hired by ASU, but was an Arkansas guy who had turned around a dreadful Division II school as head coach and then won in I-AA as a head coach.

We've been encouraged by his growth each game.

Emmitt, some SMU fans said they did not fully install their spread offense until Sam Houston, if true that was a factor but from what I saw of most of their fans on the boards BS-U is a more accurate description of their football awareness.

Leonard was recruited by... South Carolina, (staff fired before signing day) Ole Miss, (staff fired before signing day) Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Tulane Louisiana Tech

I'm offended And if you are talking about "Another Arkansas State....." "FIRST DOWN" You ripped that off from Arkansas who got it from their former PA announcer, Craig O'Neill, an alumnus of ARKANSAS STATE.

That seems unlikely. With a loss today and two or three wins later in the he would seem certain to return.

Home field advantage? If we had the uh advantage UNT has had the last two years we'd be looking to change coaches. Victories in bold. UNT 2005 UNT 2 Tulsa 54 UNT 10 Troy 13 UNT 28 ULL 31 UNT 19 ULM 24 UNT 24 ASU 21 UNT 2006 UNT 24 SMU 6 UNT 0 MTSU 35 UNT 25 FIU 22 (7 OT's three of them scoreless!) ASU 2005 ASU 56 Tenn-Martin 7 ASU 66 FIU 24 ASU 39 ULL 36 ASU 3 FAU 0 ASU 9 Troy 3 ASU 2006 ASU 14 Army 6 ASU 10 ULM 6

Dug???? I used the very first one google images brought up http://images.google.com/images?q=fouts%20...ial&sa=N&tab=wi BTW interesting to note the stadium was open 16 years before you had a memorable "classic" game played there http://www.unt.edu/northtexan/archives/p03/timetracks.htm